How I learned to stop worrying and love the future, again…
December 24th, 2009 — LiamYes, we’ve had two, maybe three stolen elections in a row. Yes, 9-11 was a false flag event. Oh, come on. Three buildings falling at free fall speed? (Three, not two). They had help. Call it infiltration, if it makes you feel better. Yes, the government is being run and ransacked by douchebag socialist arsefugs. Yes, it’s all true.
But, it struck me like a shovel in the kisser. We’re gonna be okay. Maybe not all of us – maybe not me! Maybe not you. But, we, as a group, will be alright. India, China, Amexico. All of us.
Why? Nuclear POWER! Oh, kiss my grits. We can run out of oil, and we’ll still be wanking away on our iPods, thanks to unstable radioactive material. That’s right. Nuclear Power. Kiss the blarney stone, the future is bright GREEN.
December 25th, 2009 at 10:43 AM
I posted the above note elsewhere, and people thought I was being a bit sarcastic… but..
I sort of meant it!
Maybe the last 8 years have been a horrorshow of short-sighted murderosity. Vicious and unnecessary invasions of sovereign countries, to keep the balance of power in the Middle East on the side of the Western Allies…
And so many dead and murdered in the process, Iraqi, Afghani, most of whom, let’s not kid ourselves, were not involved in terrorist activity (that’s war, folks, that’s why we don’t invade countries – because you kill a lot of civilians doing so). And a lot of teen-aged Americans – that’s the army – dead, maimed, forever altered. And that’s why war isn’t entered into lightly, or lied into, or cajoled into. Colin Powell, you dope…. See More
And yet, it struck me. It was shortsightedness on the part of the Cheney presidency. We’ll be a nuclear nation in 30 years. We’ll be well on our way, at the very least, and I daresay, we’ll be visibly on our way in 10 to 15.
No way around it. Oil wars are too costly. We’ll condemn South Dakota, or some such state, make it a national burial ground for radioactive waste, patrol it with drone ships and heavy choppers, and f-15s, or whatever the Air Force is flying today….
And we’ll be a nuclear nation.
We’ll drive electric cars, or diesel hybrids that get 300 mpg. We’ll take trains more often. We’ll ship by train more often. We’ll have to get used to a few things being a little slower. But, still available.
And some things will continue to speed up. The rate of government interference in our lives, for example, will probably speed up. The number of nuclear plants, increasing by the hundredfold, will require a near-military presence throughout the culture.
Big brother will be here in full force, in that sense.
But we may be less involved, or less interesetd in oil wars. And I daresay we won’t be as involved with the middle east. But, maybe I know better.
So, name your problems with nuclear energy, but it’s coming, and it might just offer some relief from our current malaise…and some new malaise all its own…
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December 26th, 2009 at 5:43 AM
Not going to happen any time soon unless some sort of tax scheme can be made from it. Taxes to fund it, paid by us, with more taxes to keep it running. And lots of fees for usage, which are basically taxes in disguise.
Nuclear power is expensive and so is wind power and solar power. All of which have required high levels of tax payer subsidies. Corporations understand they can demand and get free funding for any project. However currently the money-making scheme is oil. There’s plenty of it. All the talk about “Peak Oil” and us running out and it being scarce is a farce, and fear mongering to drive up the price.
They found hydrocarbons on Titan. That’s a moon orbiting another planet. Unless there were dinosaurs there who died and made “fossil fuel” the universe is probably swimming in oil. We’ve just been led to believe that oil comes from dead dinosaurs. Hence the name fossil fuel.
Oil is just too profitable to be sidelined. The price is easily manipulated. Israel threatens to attack Iran, the price spikes briefly. Storms in the Caribbean, price spikes. A major production plant has a fire or other easily man-made event (Read: Intentional) the price spikes. And this is just the minor league stuff. Derivatives markets, of which oil is a part, are basically about speculating/gambling on the minor changes in prices for commodities like oil, iron, frozen concentrated orange juice, etc. This derivatives market is estimated to be worth more than $150 trillion dollars. Yes, that is trillion with a T. To give you some idea of how large that is, the Gross Domestic Product of all nations on the planet combined in a fraction of this. And it is just basically gambling, and we all know that the house is expected to win. And the oil companies control their own house. They make far too much money in an easily manipulated market to switch to nuclear, wind or anything else.
As for the wars… we didn’t have standing armies or invasions of foreign countries until the Federal Reserve Act was passed in 1913. Then suddenly we had a huge military, we were immediately trying to get in to WWI, later WWII, Korean, Vietnam, even Panama and Granada. Any place we could find. We used any false flag excuse to get involved. The sinking of the Lusitania got us in to WWI, with us claiming it was just an unarmed and helpless passenger ship which has now been proven to have been carrying arms to belligerents in a war zone. Pearl Harbor got us in to WWII despite overwhelming evidence it was not the surprise attack we were told it was. The Gulf of Tonkin incident was false. Never happened. Saddam had no nukes. 19 hijackers, the bulk of them from Saudi Arabia, yet we went in to Afghanistan.
When you understand that our government has to borrow money to pay off the national debt, money owed to the Federal Reserve banks, it is a never-ending situation. Our government borrows money at interest from privately owned, Federal Reserve banks. That interest has to be paid back. That interest is supposed to be covered by our income taxes, but the debt is too high for it to cover, thus the government has to borrow money to pay back what it borrowed, thus increasing the debt and the interest. War produces job, jobs produce wages, wages are taxed, thus a war economy is what you get when you have a Federal Reserve system.
Before the Federal Reserve, we had our own money, with no interest. Thus we only spent, what we made. If you look at a dollar bill today, it says Federal Reserve Note. A note is not currency, it is an IOU.
Check out this quick example: http://tim.inyourface.tv/silvercertificate.html
Oil, Federal Reserve Notes, Wars, are all self-reinforcing. They work together in their own harmony, though they do the rest of us no good. The only thing that produces a change is revolution. And until there is a revolution, cheaper, cleaner energy is a dream that won’t come true. Without a revolution, we will condemn our offspring to a life of debt that is not capable of being paid for. And we will most assuredly continue to have endless wars and large standing armies to fight those wars and remain in a War-based economy. If you notice, we aren’t really fighting wars to win. Eight years since 9-11 and Iraq and Afghanistan aren’t conquered. It costs just as much to sit there and occupy as it does to fight a real opposing army. But as long as we sit there, private companies can supply that occupying army with huge, bloated contracts. Supply oil at $200 a barrel. Supplying mercenaries that cost $1,000,000 a year each. And our military uses more oil in a day than most countries do. A huge carbon footprint that is immune to any “Carbon Credits” trading scheme.
The bankers figured out how to tax the American public in 1912 and made it happen in 1913. Since then we have had all sorts of new taxes, disguised as other things. Carbon Credits Trading is a tax. The TARP funds used to bail out the banks is a tax. It ain’t free. We the taxpayer pay for it. And then we pay for the increase in our energy bills each month as energy companies pass on the costs to us. They want to privatize our roads, let private companies turn them in to Toll Roads. That is a tax.
It would be very difficult to tell tax payers to pay all sorts of fees for a solar or wind farm as people would wonder why something that nature provides for free has all sorts of taxes associated with it. It would be hard to manipulate the prices since wind doesn’t change value every day. The Sun comes up predictably. Oil on the other hand is so easily manipulated and serves the purposes of so many, that it is here to stay. And some argue it is actually a renewable resource…not running out as talk of Peak Oil is meant to suggest.
Revolution. You want change, revolution produces it. If you think your Senator or Congressman is going to provide the change, keep in mind how many in the Bush Administration were invested in the oil industry. How many of these people are invested in Defense Contractor companies. How many get their election funds donated by banking and financial interests. Just check out how many people in any administration worked for Goldman Sachs. One of the original (Privately Owned) Federal Reserve banks that has been at the heart of every depression and recession since….1913. Or who are members of the Council on Foreign Relations, a private group started by Rockefeller, whose bank is also one of the Federal Reserve Banks.
A quick list of some previous CFR members. Woodrow Wilson, Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, FDR, Truman, Eisenhauer, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush Jr., Obama. And it’s just a private group? And just to add to the list, every chairman of the Federal Reserve since 1913.
Revolution anyone?
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December 26th, 2009 at 8:56 AM
Revolution? No, I’m no revolutionary. Just a critic.
But brilliant, remarkable post.
Thanks Bill!!
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